php language

In case you weren't able to make it (or missed the live stream) Rasmus Lerdorf gave a presentation last night at Etsy as a part of their "Code as Craft" series.

They recorded the session and you can watch it here.

He talks about a few things:

I’ve been working on developer-facing software and SDKs in PHP for nearly a decade, and through the experience of supporting these developers, I’ve learned something interesting about the PHP community at-large.

The majority of PHP developers have a very good understanding of native types (e.g., strings, arrays, integers, booleans).

Since they’re the lowest common denominators of the PHP language, it’s generally pretty easy for developers to understand these types.

In a new post to his blog Justin Carmony talks about a few "itches" he's wanted to scratched when it comes to features of the PHP language - in this post it's the notation that's used surrounding the use of objects.

In a new post to his blog Jeff Moser takes you through some of his experiences in port code from C# to PHP as a first-time PHPer and learning right from a book.

Padraic Brady has posted his own response to the post from Fabien Potencier about templating in PHP applications and disagrees by saying that PHP is most definitely a worthy template language.

Wes Shell has posted a "PHP quicky" to his blog today looking at something at the core of the PHP language - its loosely-typed nature.

Brandon Savage has written a sort of letter to those developers new to the PHP community and to the language to encourage them to not worry, that things will come in time.

The latest version of the PHP language (in the 5.2 series) has been released - PHP 5.2.11:

If you've ever wanted to give back to the PHP project, but weren't sure quite how, Rafael Dohms has written up a post to make one of the options much easier to get into - writing PHPT tests for the PHP language.

In this quick post to his blog Arnold Daniels points out their patched version of the Suhosin hardening patch for PHP 5.3.